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Re: Re: tool to prepare flash image for RedBoot


On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 02:37:31PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2007-05-04, Hamish Moffatt <hamish@cloud.net.au> wrote:
> 
> > I have an embedded system using RedBoot. I would like to prepare an
> > image to be programmed into the FLASH devices before board assembly.
> >
> > Is there a tool available to build a complete image containing
> > RedBoot, a SysConfig partition with a default boot script, an
> > initialised file system and a linux image?
> 
> If you're looking for a tool to combine a bunch of
> object/hex/binary files into a single one there are tons of
> choicces.
> 
>   You can just use objcopy to combine binary chunks.
> 
>   You can use something like srec_cat available at
>   http://srecord.sourceforge.net/ to combine HEX files.
> 
>   You can use objcopy to create an ELF file for each input
>   chunk and then link them together.
> 
> Personally, I'd probably start by carefully studying the
> "objcopy" man page.  It's a _very_ useful program for anybody
> doing embedded work.  Then go read the web page for the srecord
> project above.  Between the two of them, you should be able to
> come up with a pertty straight-forward solution.

Thanks Grant, I'm aware of srec_cat and objcopy. But I would like to
include a RedBoot FIS partition table and a configuration partition
too... Ideally an unspecified tool would generate those!


Hamish
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